Even this young, everything revolves around it

Mamaw and Dadaw gave Isaac these glow-in-the-dark planet-balls when they came to visit for Thanksgiving. The planets are designed to hang from the ceiling using fishing line and sticky-tac. They have since come down, some with the help of gravity and others with the help of Daddy. Turns out the sticky-tac was doing a hellacious number on our ceiling drywall. Oh well.

The boys still like playing with the planets, holding them and especially swinging them around by their strings. Friday night as the boys were getting dress after bath, they noticed I had corralled all the planets into a Ziploc bag atop Jakey's dresser, a veritable planet treasure trove. Isaac was first to dive in. He practiced swinging Mars around in a circle, as though it was in orbit.

"Look, Mommy!" he said. "Mars is going around the moon!"

He knows this, but I reminded him, "Actually, Mars goes around the Sun. All the planets go around the Sun."

He stood corrected, "Mars is going around the Sun! And look," he said, picking up Jupiter and whirling it around, "now Jupiter is going around the Sun!"

Jacob was not one to stand by idly, even if he was totally buck nekked. "Look, Mommy!" he says, picking up Saturn and similarly twirling it around. "Saturn going around my wee-wee!"